GLOSSARY. 



41. DEFINITION OF TECHNICAL TERMS AND RUSSIAN NOMENCLATURE, USED BY THE 



AUTHOR IN THE PRECEDING MONOGRAPH. 



Ahltjckeyak (Aleutian). — A rough back -bone. 



Aleut (Russian). — Name given to all native inhabitants of the Aleutian islands. 



Akeie (Russian). — Lomvia arra. The guillemot, or murre ; so named from the bird's harsh cry of "arra-arra". 



Baillie BRtJSHicrE (Russian). — Phaleris psittacula. Parroquet Auk; "white bosom". 



Banyah (Russian). — A steamy bath-house. 



Barbie (Russian). — An elderly married woman. 



Barrabkie (Russiau). — A hut. 



Barrabara (Russian). — A large hut, or "kozarmie". 



BooROON (Russiau). — Surf. 



BiDABBAH (Russian). — A large skin-covered boat, propelled with oars, or used with sails before the wind; carries 



from three to ten tons. 

 BiDARKA (Russian). — A sniiill skin-covered canoe. 



BiDARSHiK (Russiau). — One who controls a baidar and its crew; a foreman. 

 BoBROViA (Russian). — Otter island. 

 BoGA Slov (Russian). — God's word. 



BooRGA (Russian). — Gale that blows fiercely and is laden with snow; from "booryah", a storm or tempest. 

 BoLSHOi (Russian). — Big. 

 Btjik (Russian). — A working ox, or bull. 



BuLi, (English). — The adult male fur-seal; also the adult male walrus and sea-lion. 

 Oanooskie (Russian). — Simorhynchus cristatellus. Crested auk. 

 Chikie (Russian). — Larus glaucus. Burgomaster gull. 



Choenie Goose (Russian). — Branta canadensis var. leucopareia. White-collared goose. 

 Choochkie (Russian). — Simorhynchus pusillus. Least, or knob-billed auk. 

 Choochil (Russian).— To Stuff. 



COOKHNET (Russian). — The Aleutian cooking hut outside of the barrabkie. 

 Cow (English).— The adult female of the fur-seal, the sea-lion, and the walrus. 

 Dalnoi Mees (Russian). — Distant cape. 

 Deetiah (Russian).— Children. 

 DoMASHNiB (Russian). — Houses. 

 EiNAHNUHTO (Aleutian). — The mammae. 



Emannimik (Russian). — ^Namesday; or, literally, used as birthday. 

 Epatka (Russian). — Fratercula corniculata. Horned pufiQn. 

 Flensing (English). — Act of removing skins from seal carcasses. 

 Flipper (English). — The fore-hand and hind-foot of fur-seal, sea-lion, and walrus. 

 GoRBOTCH (Russian). — Humpback. 

 Gorode (Russian). — A town; a village. 



GOVEROOSKIE (Russian). — Larus brevirostris, and L. tridactylus. Gulls. 

 Hauling (English). — Action of seals in coming up from the sea over (he land. 

 Heat, " heating" (English).— That sudden decay of the seal's body after death. 

 Holluschak, pi. HOLLUSCHICKIE (Russian). — Bachelor; bachelors. 



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